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1.
Building fast.com (netflix.com)
432 points by samber on Aug 9, 2016 | 175 comments
2.
“I Want to Know What Code Is Running Inside My Body” (backchannel.com)
536 points by warp on Aug 8, 2016 | 211 comments
3.
AI’s Language Problem (technologyreview.com)
309 points by punnerud on Aug 9, 2016 | 235 comments
4.
I Don’t Care How Well You Code, Understand Your Compensation (hackernoon.com)
494 points by signa11 on Aug 9, 2016 | 307 comments
5.
Marie Curie Got Her Start at a Secret University for Women (atlasobscura.com)
221 points by lermontov on Aug 9, 2016 | 52 comments
6.
Researchers crack open malware that hid for 5 years (arstechnica.com)
357 points by rando444 on Aug 9, 2016 | 221 comments
7.
PyPy gets funding from Mozilla for Python 3.5 support (morepypy.blogspot.com)
316 points by progval on Aug 9, 2016 | 103 comments
8.
Trial by Jury, a Hallowed American Right, Is Vanishing (nytimes.com)
215 points by greghendershott on Aug 8, 2016 | 188 comments
9.
The CIA’s 1944 Simple Sabotage Field Manual (2015) (openculture.com)
218 points by _gjrn on Aug 9, 2016 | 64 comments
10.
Fast and Accurate Document Detection for Scanning (dropbox.com)
188 points by samber on Aug 9, 2016 | 51 comments
11.
CSS mix-blend-mode is bad for your browsing history (lcamtuf.blogspot.com)
196 points by kawera on Aug 8, 2016 | 40 comments
12.
APL Tutorial (zerobugsandprogramfaster.net)
123 points by ktRolster on Aug 9, 2016 | 55 comments
13.
Intel to buy deep-learning startup Nervana Systems for at least $350M (recode.net)
143 points by flinner on Aug 9, 2016 | 43 comments
14.
Backyard telescopes and amateur eyes see where “pro” astronomers can’t (arstechnica.com)
109 points by okket on Aug 8, 2016 | 30 comments
15.
How to Have Healthy Relationships as a Developer (smo.nu)
226 points by karlmcguire on Aug 9, 2016 | 140 comments
16.
1400 km of optical fiber connect optical clocks in France and Germany (sciencebulletin.org)
102 points by upen on Aug 9, 2016 | 26 comments
17.
Cjdns: a secure non-anonymous P2P network (github.com/cjdelisle)
135 points by crasm on Aug 9, 2016 | 34 comments
18.
Updating Torrents via DHT Mutable Items (bittorrent.org)
117 points by sktrdie on Aug 9, 2016 | 44 comments
19.
USMS Asset Forfeiture Bitcoin Sale (usmarshals.gov)
85 points by superchink on Aug 9, 2016 | 75 comments
20.
How do we build encryption backdoors? (cryptographyengineering.com)
82 points by michael_fine on Aug 9, 2016 | 17 comments
21.
What No New Particles Means for Physics (quantamagazine.org)
189 points by ernesto95 on Aug 9, 2016 | 58 comments
22.
What Is Knot Theory? Why Is It in Mathematics? [pdf] (osaka-cu.ac.jp)
94 points by _of on Aug 9, 2016 | 35 comments
23.
PostgreSQL Index Internals (pgcon.org)
211 points by snaga on Aug 9, 2016 | 21 comments
24.
Beyond Bitcoin – Part II: Blockchain-based systems without mining [pdf] (iacr.org)
76 points by grey-area on Aug 9, 2016 | 28 comments
25.
Today’s Smooth-Running Horses May Owe Their Genetics to the Vikings (smithsonianmag.com)
51 points by Mz on Aug 8, 2016 | 5 comments
26.
Randstad buys Monster for $429M as recruitment consolidation continues (techcrunch.com)
98 points by kenbaylor on Aug 9, 2016 | 89 comments
27.
Answer: How many center-pivot irrigation systems do you see? (searchresearch1.blogspot.com)
88 points by rhema on Aug 8, 2016 | 50 comments
28.
Toward practical quantum computers (news.mit.edu)
54 points by Lind5 on Aug 9, 2016
29.
Struggling Twitter lists over 183,000 square feet for sublease at its S.F. HQ (bizjournals.com)
113 points by abradabra on Aug 9, 2016 | 90 comments
30.
A Spreadsheet’s Star Turn (technologyreview.com)
35 points by danso on Aug 8, 2016 | 3 comments

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